Details about Intel's 22 nanometer processor Haswell are available. (picture: Canardplus)
Currently Intel takes the step from the recently upgraded 45 nanometer
Penryns to the new micro architecture Nehalem. Now there are details about the next generation codename
Haswell. With only 22 nanometers it is supposed replace the
Ivy bridge processor by 2011.
According to
golem, Haswell will have eight cores and a new cache design. Furthermore Intel wants to combine the commands “Multiply” and “Add” as they did with “Compare” and “Jump” in the Core architecture. Multiply-Add-loops are often used to display the theoretical power of calculation units in FLOPS. The combined function is called “Fused Multiply Add” or “FMA” and could theoretically deliver benefits in accuracy and data throughput.
Additional information should be available in some days.
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